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How Artists on Twitter Tricked Spammy T-Shirt Stores , by moron on Dec 8, 2019 23:57:21 GMT 1,  "Yesterday, an artist on Twitter named Nana ran an experiment to test a theory. 




 Their suspicion was that bots were actively looking on Twitter for phrases like “I want this on a shirt” or “This needs to be a t-shirt,” automatically scraping the quoted images, and instantly selling them without permission as print-on-demand t-shirts.



Dozens of Nana’s followers replied, and a few hours later, a Twitter bot replied with a link to the newly-created t-shirt listing on Moteefe, a print-on-demand t-shirt service."





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  moteefe.com/store/official-banksy-balloon-girl-shirt/13741455-Banksy-girl-balloon-shirt?color=heather-grey&product=unisex-sweatshirt

 "Yesterday, an artist on Twitter named Nana ran an experiment to test a theory. 




 Their suspicion was that bots were actively looking on Twitter for phrases like “I want this on a shirt” or “This needs to be a t-shirt,” automatically scraping the quoted images, and instantly selling them without permission as print-on-demand t-shirts.



Dozens of Nana’s followers replied, and a few hours later, a Twitter bot replied with a link to the newly-created t-shirt listing on Moteefe, a print-on-demand t-shirt service."





waxy.org/2019/12/how-artists-on-twitter-tricked-spammy-t-shirt-stores-into-admitting-their-automated-art-theft/#respond





  moteefe.com/store/official-banksy-balloon-girl-shirt/13741455-Banksy-girl-balloon-shirt?color=heather-grey&product=unisex-sweatshirt